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Background: Materials Management Materials Management is the branch of logistics that deals with the tangible components of a supply chain. Specifically, this covers the acquisition of spare parts and replacements, quality control of purchasing and ordering such parts, and the standards involved in ordering, shipping, and warehousing the said parts.supply chainquality control Wikipedia

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Traditional/ Legacy Model Large Inventory of Items maintained in hospital warehouse and storage areas in hospital. Large staff maintains inventory and searches for items as they are requested by units ESI/ NOVA software utilized to place orders, manage stock

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Requesting Items Challenges Disconnect between user of items and supply technicians – Error prone – slow Lawson Solutions = Requisition Self-Service (RSS) Any employee can be trained and authorized to access the MMIS and place orders directly Accuracy and cost control enhanced by associated product details and vendor contracts At UAB, over 2000 employees have been trained and approximately 500 are regular users

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Distribution Tasks Deliver items to floors, units, OR and supply rooms Track location of items ordered but not distributed Respond to recalls to remove items Monitor expirations of items Lawson Solutions MMIS includes final destination information on all orders to allow for efficient distribution by hospital personnel Any items MMIS identifier can be used to determine where it should be delivered Facilitates locating recalled and expired items

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Lawson Solutions-Overview Upstream MMIS is fed data from suppliers of equipment and downstream it interfaces with UABs Oracle systems and Crystal Reports to serve the needs of the Finance, Accounting, Accounts Payable and Administration. Data is entered into a master file for each product which contains multiple identifiers and links to a vendor agreement which specifies processing

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Lawson Solutions-Overview Leader in industry with 4,000 customers in 40 countries, including 100 health care providers Competitors include IBM/Cognos, McKesson and Oracle Compatible with United Nations Standard Products and Services Code® (UNSPSC®), currently used at UAB and GS1, the standard currently advocated by AHRMM to promote safe and efficient supply chain management